The Las Vegas Sun lays out what is at stake in tomorrow's hearing about OSHA findings and recommendations for Nevada’s Workplace Health and Safety Enforcement Program. They say:
For more information on the 2008 hearing, click here.
To read the OSHA review of the Nevada health and safety program, click here. For a shorter explanation of the report's findings, see our blog post.
Visit our hearing page for a complete list of witnesses.
Why did the state agency charged with keeping workers safe on the job fail so badly — and are those failures symptomatic of a national problem?...At stake could be Nevada’s control over the workplace-safety program. Nevada is one of 22 states operating such a program, which is supposed to protect private and public employees. The federal government shoulders the responsibility in all other states.The Education and Labor Committee first examined construction safety problems in a 2008 hearing, including a string of deaths during the recent building boom on the Las Vegas strip. The hearing found that even when Nevada issued fines to employers for operating an unsafe workplace, those sanctions were often later reduced or even eliminated.
For more information on the 2008 hearing, click here.
To read the OSHA review of the Nevada health and safety program, click here. For a shorter explanation of the report's findings, see our blog post.
Visit our hearing page for a complete list of witnesses.
